May 8, 2018 -
First Lady, 1897 — 1901 Ida Saxton McKinley was born in Canton, Ohio, on June 8, 1847. She met her future husband and president, William McKinley, while working at her father’s bank, and they married in 1871. Ill health, including...
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First Lady, 1909 — 1913 Helen Herron “Nellie” Taft was born June 1, 1861, in Cincinnati. At 17, she was a White House guest of President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, who were close friends with her parents. She later...
May 8, 2018 -
First Lady, 1913 — 1914 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was born May 15, 1860, in Savannah, Georgia, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. Her future husband and president, Woodrow Wilson, whose father was also a Presbyterian minister, was about six...
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First Lady, 1915 — 1921 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was born in Wytheville, Virginia, on October 15, 1872. At 15, she went to Martha Washington College to study music and later to a smaller school in Richmond. She married her...
May 8, 2018 -
First Lady, 1901 — 1909 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was born August 6, 1861, in Norwich, Connecticut. Growing up in New York City near Union Square, she was a frequent visitor to future President Theodore Roosevelt’s grandparents’ home and became...
May 8, 2018 -
First Lady, 1893—1897 President Grover Cleveland and Frances Cleveland remain the only President and first lady in American history to leave the White House and then return years later for a second non-consecutive term. Mrs. Cleveland was always a strong...
May 8, 2018 -
First Lady, 1886–1889 Frances Folsom Cleveland was born July 21, 1864, in Buffalo, New York, and married President Grover Cleveland on June 2, 1886. As first lady, she held receptions at the White House for working-class women who were unable...
May 7, 2020 -
First Lady, 1889—1892 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison was born October 1, 1832, in Oxford, Ohio. She enjoyed painting for recreation, including china painting, which became one of her passions when she taught ceramic painting at her church. Along with her...
May 8, 2018 -
Administration of President Chester Arthur, 1881—1885 The Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-145) contains a provision to provide continuity of the First Spouse Gold Coin Program during those times in which a President served without a first...
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First Lady, 1877—1881 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes was born on August 28, 1831, in Chillicothe, Ohio, and attended Wesleyan Female College in Cincinnati, where she met Rutherford B. “Rud” Hayes. They married in 1852 and lived in Cincinnati until the...
